Leah Dou
NYUSH|Junior|IMA major|Flim minor
One of the most attracting points of the film is actors and actresses. The main actress gives a dramatic acting which shapes the whole atmosphere of the film, and the audience would be easily affected by her emotionally. The supporting actress, playing the cashier, also cooperates well. The spotlight should be the main actor, who gives the most natural acting. As an accidental actor, the director and the DP react well to record on the scene, their sensible choice makes the brilliant scene. The main actress also shows her master acting skill to carry on the scene so that the second card swipe scene could be so successful.
In all, the simple story and crew isn't the film mediocre, I would give 4.5/5 to the film. 0.5 for the poor sound recording quality.
NYUSH|Junior|IMA & Computer Science Double Major
The contents of the film are essentially interesting and dramatic. The exaggerating reaction on lack of money to buy coffee shows how good and worth tasting the coffee is. But, the film doesn't stop here, instead, it used the design like the game "life is strange", it flashed back and chose another way. This part of the content spreads the correct value, making the videos not that "evil". In all, it's a very interesting and attractive advertising video.
"Why holding the Starbucks cup?"
This is the first shot of the film in which the character was trying to find something to drink. But wait, why was Josefina holding the Starbucks cup? Maybe she was so excited that she could successfully borrow the empty cup for free. Oh, let's shoot this scene again!
Story about "SHOOTING"
The crews thought up lots of the plots during the brainstorming, but none were far from eating; Josefina came up with lots of the plots, but none were far from "SHOOTING". Finally, as the leading actress, Josefina realized her cool dream.
Acting during lunch rush hour!
When the students came, she swiped the card calmly, and when Josefina started acting, she acted in the same calm way. When the plot changed due to the integration of real world and fantasy, did she realize the integration? How could she act it out so naturally? Thanks for helping us in the lunch rush hour!
The Key person that breaks the boundary between real world and fantasy
"You mean I don't have any swipe?" "I can help you!" Well, the plot was correct, but... He was really waiting in line and offered the character his swipe. Laughing in our heart, we continued shooting and told him the truth afterwards. It was embarassing when we revealed the truth, but could this prove that our Caffe Latte Fantasy might be a real story?
"I want to act as the savior! Uhh...Someone has taken my role?!"
When there was someone successfully breaking the boundary between the real and fantasy, there was someone who lost his or her role. Did you see Lichen's JEALOUS glance? Luckily, Lichen found her new role in editing the film and thus wasn't out of work due to this coincidence.
30 Minute Film Festival, known as 30MFF, is a film shooting campaign held by Communications Lab of NYU Abu Dhabi. Participants produce the film in groups, planning, shooting and editing the film within 30 minutes. The production of the film is not only a presentation of the participants' wisdom and creativity, but also a good source of learning materials.
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